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Science and Security Experts List Developed by AAU (Last Updated October 2019) Science and Security Experts List Developed by AAU (last updated October 2019) China Carolyn Bartholomew, Chair, U.S.-China Economic and Security Commission. Former Chief of Staff, Counsel, Legislative Director, and Foreign Policy Advisor to U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. She also served as a Professional Staff Member on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Tai Ming Cheung, Director, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation; Professor, GPS, University of California, San Diego. Previously a correspondent at the Far Eastern Economic Review. His latest book is “China and Cybersecurity: Espionage, Strategy, and Politics in the Digital Domain.” Robert Daly, Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Woodrow Wilson Center. He has served as a U.S. diplomat in Beijing; as an interpreter for Chinese and U.S. leaders, including President Carter and Secretary of State Kissinger and as head of China programs at Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, and the University of Maryland. Larry Dimond, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution and editor of the Hoover Institutions Report Chinese Influence & American Interests: Promoting Constructive Vigilance. Elizabeth Economy, C. V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies, Council on Foreign Relations. She is an acclaimed author and expert on Chinese domestic and foreign policy, writing on topics ranging from China's environmental challenges to its role in global governance. In June 2018, Dr. Economy was named one of the "10 Names That Matter on China Policy" by Politico Magazine. John Holden, Senior Director for China, McLarty Associates. Most recently served as President and CEO of the US-China Strong Foundation after a decade in Beijing as Managing Director and Senior Counselor for Hill+Knowlton Strategies; Founding Chairman of Shaklee (China) Ltd.; former President of the National Committee on United States–China Relations. Peter Harrell, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions in the State Department’s Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs from 2012-2014. Scott Kennedy, Senior Adviser, Freeman Chair in China Studies and Director, Project on Chinese Business and Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies. From 2007 to 2014, he was the director of the Indiana University (IU) Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business, and he was the founding academic director of IU’s China Office. Peter Mattis, Deputy Staff Director of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. Former Research Fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and former CIA counterintelligence analyst who has written extensively on Chinese intelligence since leaving the agency in 2010. Mr. Mattis’ analysis of Chinese security and intelligence has appeared or been cited in, among others, the Washington Post, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, and CNN. Michael Pillsbury, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Chinese Strategy, Hudson Institute. Michael Pillsbury is a distinguished defense policy adviser, former high-ranking government official, and author of numerous books and reports on China. During the Reagan administration, Pillsbury was Assistant Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning. Michael Pillsbury is one of President Donald Trump's top outside advisers on China. Kevin Rudd, President, Asia Society Policy Institute. The Honorable Kevin Rudd served as Australia’s 26th Prime Minister (2007-2010, 2013) and as Foreign Minister (2010-2012). He is also a leading international authority on China. He began his career as a China scholar, serving as an Australian diplomat in Beijing before entering Australian politics. David Shambaugh, Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science & International Affairs Director, China Policy Program, Elliot School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. Professor Shambaugh is an internationally recognized authority and author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia, with a strong interest in the European Union and transatlantic issues. Ambassador David B. Shear, Senior Advisor, McLarty Associates. Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs from 2014 to 2016. Prior to 2014, Ambassador Shear served for 32 years in the US Foreign Service, most recently as the US Ambassador to Vietnam. In Washington, Ambassador Shear has served in the Offices of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Affairs and as the Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs. Susan Shirk, Research Professor and Chair, 21st Century China Center, School of Global Policy Strategy, University of California, San Diego. She is an influential expert on U.S.-China relations and Chinese politics. She previously served as deputy assistant secretary of state (1997-2000) responsible for U.S. policy toward China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia and she founded and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue, an unofficial forum for discussions of security issues. Export Controls John Barker, Partner, Arnold and Porter. Focus is on national security matters including export controls and trade sanctions. He helps companies and institutions establish compliance plans, obtain export authorizations, and provides representation in enforcement proceedings. Before joining Arnold and Porter, he had served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation Controls and, prior to that, as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Controls in the U.S. Department of State. Kevin Wolf, Partner, International Trade Practice, Akin Gump. Mr. Wolf served for seven years (2010- 2017) as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration in the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) at the Department of Commerce. In this role he served as a central strategist, negotiator and implementer of the President Obama’s Export Control Reform (ECR) Initiative. He also served as the primary Commerce Department senior official responsible for working with the interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). National Security and Defense Policy Michèle Flournoy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors. Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and former Co-Founder and CEO of the Center for New American Security (CNAS), where she currently serves on the board. Michèle served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from February 2009 to February 2012. She was the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the formulation of national security and defense policy, oversight of military plans and operations, and in National Security Council deliberations. She led the development of the Department of Defense’s 2012 Strategic Guidance and represented the Department in dozens of foreign engagements, in the media and before Congress. Prior to confirmation, Michèle co-led President Obama’s transition team at the Defense Department. National Security and Technology Policy James Andrew Lewis, Senior Vice President and Director, Technology Policy Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He has strong expertise in export controls, cybersecurity policy, U.S. foreign policy and intelligence. Before joining CSIS, he worked at the Departments of State and Commerce as a Foreign Service officer and as a member of the Senior Executive Service. In this role, he worked on presidential policies for arms transfers, on commercial space remote sensing, on policies to secure and commercialize the Internet, and on encryption and lawful access to communications. He was also the Commerce Departments lead for national security and espionage concerns related to high- technology trade with China. .
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